For the last six years, the bot detection company Distil has been releasing an annual bad bot report. The Distil Research Lab analyzed thousands of website domains across 2018, tracking hundreds of billions of bad bot requests. Distil’s report is
Akamai’s reported Q3 earnings and “Media Delivery Solutions” revenue is down 14%, coming in at $188M. “Cloud Security Solutions” revenue is up 46% coming it at $95M. First Takeaway: today the video streaming/media delivery business is a mere afterthought in
The latest DDoS attacks against Dyn and Brian Krebs are a defining moment for the CDN industry. Up until last year, large-scale DDoS attacks weren’t much of a concern to content delivery companies. Fast forward to today, and in the
Earlier this week, Akamai released threat research relating to the recent string of DDoS attacks that make use of IoT devices by exploiting security weaknesses in their factory settings. In the report, Akamai provided information about how IoT devices are
DDoS attacks appear to be increasing in frequency and scaling in size. Most reports will show a near continuous stream of increasing risk and higher attack volume, but Versign’s Q2 2016 research report suggests that the trend has always been
The 1Tbps DDoS attack is a total game changer for the edge security business model. For starters, we can throw away the idea of small companies becoming a DDoS mitigation service provider. Unfortunately, the DDoS mitigation business is going the
September 22, 2016 is the ugliest day in history for the DDoS Mitigation industry. It was a fiasco for Akamai and a black eye for every DDoS Mitigation company in the market. Now that things are getting back to normal,
Security journalist Brian Krebs has been the prime target of a major attack and the new weapon for DDoS attacks – IoT devices.Â
Layer 3 DDoS are some of the most common types of DDoS attack, and Cloudflare has reported seeing a peak at up to 400Gpbs over the past month. L3 attacks flood a target network with data packets that can completely
DOSarrest, founded in 2007 is a leading pioneer in DDoS Mitigation. They currently have 25 employees, 300-400 customers, including many government agencies, and four scrubbing centers located in Los Angeles, New York, London and Singapore, with more on the way.
Plenty of Fish, the popular online dating website was taken down by an 80Gbps DDoS attack impacting 1 million users. Last month, Meetup.com was taken down for 5 days, the courtesy of an 8Gbps DDoS attack. Statcounter, WPEngine, Aweber, and
